Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Speaking of Kids is a podcast series from First Focus on Children that uncovers why children are an afterthought in politics. In this episode, Dr. Glenn Flores explains that the most important lesson in child health research and policy is that children have vastly different anatomy and physiology depending on their age, which requires taking a developmental perspective.
The 2024 Babies in the Budget book analyzes the share of federal spending allocated to our nation’s youngest. Overall, our analysis finds that for the third straight year, the share of federal spending on children ages 0-3 declined, from just 1.98% in FY 2021 to a mere 1.52% in FY 2024.
Children’s Budget 2023 provides a comprehensive analysis of the share of spending allocated to kids across more than 250 government programs in the federal budget. Our analysis finds that U.S. spending on children — both here and abroad — accounts for less than 10% of the federal budget and has decreased nearly 16% in just one year.
Census figures track 10% increase in child poverty Child poverty increased by more than 10% in 2023, according to…
School board elections have proven once again that voters reject extremist education policies touted by groups like Moms for…
New data released today from the U.S. Census Bureau finds that 13.7 percent of children (nearly 10 million) experienced…
Children make up approximately one-quarter of the U.S. population and all our nation’s future. Ample evidence confirms that investing…
Project 2025, the detailed policy agenda assembled by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation for the next Republican administration, would slash…
It is time for politicians to demonstrate who’s for kids and who’s just kidding, Bruce Lesley writes.
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For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
